Simona Filippini is a photographer, director and curator of participatory projects linked to women’s and new citizens representation. She collaborates with many national and international magazines, where she publishes texts and photographs. She works also on visual education of the youngest through seminars and workshops, in synergy with schools and museums throughout the italian territory. She founded in 2008 the CAMERA 21 – contemporary photography association Selected exhibititions and curatorial projects.
2024
Roma ChilometroZero – collective exhibition, curate by Alessandra Mauro, produced by Leica Camera Italia and ContrastoBooks, Museo di Roma in Trastevere
2023
Premio Terna Driving Energy 2023 –curate by Marco Delogu, collective exhibition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma
Parco della Fotografia – solo exhibition curated by Maurizio Beucci, in the Roma KilometroZero project by Leica Italia, Leica Store Rome.
Presente Perfect/Passato Prossimo curate by Manuela De Leonardis, collective exhibition celebrating the gallery’s tirthy years of activity. Acta International Gallery
2022
RomeLOVE #14 – solo exhibition curated by Chiara Capodici, organized by T con Zero in the events of Contemporaneamente Roma – Acta Internationale Gallery, Roma.
La Città che (non) c’è – exhibition, in the streets of Pigneto district in Rome, curated by Chiara Capodici and organized by La città che (non) c’e
Paesi – exhibition curated by Lina Pallotta – with ADF – Women Photographers Association, thanks to Sistema Museale Medaniene
Paesi curated by Lina Pallotta – ADF with Musei Medaniene, exhibition EurPhotoProject Festival di Fotografia curated by Marco Delogu – La Nuvola, Roma
2021
Pagpupulong curated by Sara Palmieri, site specific exhibition, Rione Roma, Basilica di Santa Pudenziana, Roma
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, exhibition – Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno
Scolpite curated by Associazione Donne Fotografe, exhibition , Palazzo Reale, Milano
RomeLOVE, curated by Chiara Capodici, solo exhibition Magazzini Fotografici, Napoli
Scolpite curated by Paola Riccardi, exhibition Associazione Donne Fotografe, Brescia Photo Festival
Argento Vivo, curated by Monica Polledri, solo exhibition, Assemblea, Roma
2020
Taccuini Romani, Vedute di Diego Angeli, Visioni di Simona Filippini curate by Silvana Bonfili solo exhibition, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Roma
2019
Taccuini romani_RomeLOVE, solo exhibition, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Roma
42 gradi Nord/12 gradi Est – video – co.directed with Elisabetta Portoghese, Festival dell’Umanità Castelnuovo di Porto
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, exhibition – Auditorium Diocesano la Vallisa Bari, Italy
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, book presentation, Museo Pignatelli, Napoli
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, book presentation, Museo Macro Roma
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, book presentation, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma
2018
Un’altra Storia – video – co-directed with Lina Pallotta – Museo Villa Pignatelli casa della fotografia, Napoli
BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
A scuola anch’io – video – Università La Sapienza, Facoltà di Scienza della Formazione, Roma
The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, Exhibition – Ospedale Clinicizzato S.S. Annunziata, Chieti
2017
BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Emerging Talents, Museo Macro, Roma
RomeLOVE, solo exhibition, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
2016
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, book and project presentation, Leboudoir 2.0, Les Rencontres d’Arles
2015
RomeLOVE, book presentation, Farhenheit book shop, Roma
BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
2014
RomeLOVE, book presentation, NonostanteMarras, Milano
BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, – Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
In Itinere – video – Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
DonnexDonne – Exhibition – Galleria del Cembalo, Roma
Italiani per Costituzione – video – co-directed with Matteo Antonelli, Sala del Consiglio Comunale, Milano
2013
Italiani per Costituzione – video – co-directed with Matteo Antonelli, FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale, Museo Macro, Roma
25 – video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Teatri di Vetro, Municipio XI, Roma
In-visibile Scampia – video – co-directed with Manuela Fugenzi, Museo Villa Pignatelli Casa della Fotografia, Napoli
2012
IN/OUT ritratti sul lavoro – video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Fotografia, Festival Internazionale, Museo Macro, Roma
BOX21 ritratti in Piazza, performance and video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Teatri di Vetro, Municipio XI, Roma
2011
Desperate Housewives – video – Obiettivo donna/Officine Fotografiche, Roma
BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video – co-directed with Franco Mapelli and Eva Tomei, XVII Municipio, Roma
2010
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, exhibition and book presentation, Biblioteca delle Donne di Bologna
Femminile, Plurale, book presentation, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Roma
2009
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – Palazzo Valentini, Roma
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project presentation – Università La Sapienza, Facoltà di Scienze della comunicazione, Roma
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – La Feltrinelli, Udine
DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – Istituto italiano di cultura di Marsiglia
A CASA, itinerant exhibition in Roma, Torino, Milano, Firenze, Napoli
2008
Agenda photos by Tony Gentile, curatorial project, – Centro studi Luigi Di Sarro, Roma
Il mio compagno di viaggio photos by Davide di Gianni, curatorial project, s.t. foto libreria galleria, Roma
2007
Napoli/Forcella Dentro/Fuori, curatorial progect, FotoGrafia, Festival internazionale di Roma
2005
Alza gli occhi e guarda_Forcella, solo exhibition – Palazzo Reale, Napoli
Alza gli occhi e guarda – ehibition on maxi billboards on Forcella’s district walls, Napoli
2003
Roma City, solo exhibition, Galleria Acta International, Roma
2Rome, solo exhibition, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York
Fuori e dentro i monasteri – exhibition – Galleria Sala1, Roma
Roma City – exhibition, FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale, Mercati di Traiano, Roma
2002
Duemila Roma – exhibition, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
Dippold the optician – solo exhibition, Galleria Zadig, Roma